Hrant Dink

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The murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, founder and managing editor of the weekly Agos newspaper, is still under investigation in Turkey. But despite arrests last month in the eight-year-old case, Dink's family and colleagues are worried justice will still not be served.

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5. Building Pressure, Enforcing Compliance

The United Nations has escalated its focus on journalist killings, declaring that unpunished attacks against journalists are a major threat not only to press freedom, but also to all major areas of the U.N.’s work. In recent years, it has adopted two resolutions addressing journalists’ safety and impunity and launched a plan of action. These have come on top of existing Security Council Resolution 1738, which condemns attacks against journalists in conflict. “There must be no impunity for those who target journalists for violence,” U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon proclaimed in a statement in the run-up to World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2014.

For
the second year in a row, our prison census
shows, Turkey
jailed more journalists than any other country. The number of journalists
behind bars is 40; down from the 61 reporters in October 2012, and less than
the 49 we recorded on December 1, 2012. Still, Turkey
holds more journalists in custody than Iran, China, or Eritrea.

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When Mick Deane was killed in Egypt on Wednesday, he became the 1,000th journalist documented by CPJ as having died in direct relation to his work. The photos above, a sampling of those who have died over the past 21 years, serve as a powerful reminder of the cost of critical, independent journalism.

A decision last week in the murder case of Hrant
Dink will lead to a retrial, but Dink's supporters are still not satisfied.
The ruling on May 15 by Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals in Ankara
acknowledged that there was a criminal conspiracy to murder the ethnic Armenian
journalist, but stopped short of opening the way to a deeper investigation into
potential involvement by Turkey's powerful institutions.